drip

noun

A tedious, unimaginative, conventional person; square, wimp •The term was apparently used a decade earlier in British schoolboy slang: the biggest drip at Miss Basehoar's, a school ostensibly abounding with fair-sized drips/ such drips; they're just sort of dull(1930s+ Teenagers)

Useless and idle talk; gossip (1930+ Hoboes)

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